Psalm 9:12
New International Version
For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.

New Living Translation
For he who avenges murder cares for the helpless. He does not ignore the cries of those who suffer.

English Standard Version
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Berean Standard Bible
For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

King James Bible
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

New King James Version
When He avenges blood, He remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.

New American Standard Bible
For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the needy.

NASB 1995
For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

NASB 1977
For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Legacy Standard Bible
For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Amplified Bible
For He who avenges blood [unjustly shed] remembers them (His people); He does not forget the cry of the afflicted and abused.

Christian Standard Bible
For the one who seeks an accounting for bloodshed remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the oppressed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the One who seeks an accounting for bloodshed remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

American Standard Version
For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because he has remembered to require their blood and he does not forget the cry of the poor.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

Contemporary English Version
You did not forget to punish the guilty or listen to the cries of those in need.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For requiring their blood he hath remembered the: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

English Revised Version
For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The one who avenges murder has remembered oppressed people. He has never forgotten their cries.

Good News Translation
God remembers those who suffer; he does not forget their cry, and he punishes those who wrong them.

International Standard Version
As an avenger of blood, he remembers them; he has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For He that avengeth blood hath remembered them; He hath not forgotten the cry of the humble.

Literal Standard Version
For He who is seeking for blood | Has remembered them, | He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

Majority Standard Bible
For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

New American Bible
For the avenger of bloodshed remembers, does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

NET Bible
For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help

New Revised Standard Version
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

New Heart English Bible
For he who takes revenge against murderers remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

Webster's Bible Translation
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

World English Bible
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Young's Literal Translation
For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

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Context
I Will Give Thanks to the LORD
11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations. 12For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted. 13Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,…

Cross References
Genesis 9:5
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Genesis 42:22
And Reuben responded, "Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!"

2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!"

Psalm 9:18
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

Psalm 10:12
Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

Psalm 72:14
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

Psalm 136:23
He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.


Treasury of Scripture

When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.

When

Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

2 Kings 24:4
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

he forgetteth

Psalm 10:14,17
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless…

Psalm 22:24
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Psalm 34:6
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

humble.

Judges 10:16
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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Psalm 9
1. David praises God for executing judgment
11. He incites others to praise him
13. He prays that he may have cause to praise him














(12) When.--Better, for he maketh inquisition; literally, the seeker of bloods: i.e., "the avenger of blood." The allusion is to the goel, the nearest relative of the murdered man, who must, according to Oriental custom, avenge him. The verbs are better in the past, "remembered," "forgot not."

Them--i.e., the sufferers to be mentioned now.

Humble.--This follows the Hebrew margin. Better here, the afflicted. In the Hebrew the two readings give two forms from the same root, generally taken to have, one of them, an ethical, the other, a physical sense; but the distinction is not borne out by Biblical use.

Verse 12. - When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; rather, for he that maketh inquisition for blood (see Genesis 9:5) remembereth them. God, i.e., the Requirer of blood (Kay), remembers, when he makes his inquisition, those who are oppressed (per. 9), and who seek him (ver. 10). He forgetteth not the cry of the humble; or, the afflicted (Kay, Cheyne). He comes to the aid of such persons, and avenges them on their enemies.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the Avenger
דֹרֵ֣שׁ (ḏō·rêš)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship

of bloodshed
דָּ֭מִים (dā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

remembers;
זָכָ֑ר (zā·ḵār)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

He does not ignore
שָׁ֝כַ֗ח (ḵaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

the cry
צַעֲקַ֥ת (ṣa·‘ă·qaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6818: A cry, outcry

of the afflicted.
עֲנָוִֽים׃ (‘ă·nā·wîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble


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